Janet Malcolm

Broschiertes Buch

Two Lives

Gertrude and Alice

Beschreibung

'How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?' The author asks at the beginning of this work of literary biography and investigative journalism. The pair, of course, is Gertrude Stein, the modernist master and Alice B Toklas, the 'worker bee' who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their forty-year expatriate 'marriage'.

Autor

Janet Malcolm (1934-2021) was the author of The Journalistand the Murderer , The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and Reading Chekhov, among other books. She frequently wrote for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 134mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9780300143102
• ISBN-10: 0300143109
• Artikelnr.: 23605657